I found out about a neat feature for adding in custom tiles to the app launcher. Here are the steps: 1) Click the Office 365 admin click Company Profile > Custom tiles > Add 2) Fill out name and URL, custom image URL 3) Add in the...

I took a vacation and have been away for a bit and a lot things have occurred in Office 365. Let me summarize some of the key Office 365 and Azure Active Directory features which I feel are most relevant to education customers that were announced or launched...

This is a very common question I get from customers and also they want to know how they can globally elevate permissions to search/access OneDrive for Business. They want to be able to search OneDrive for Business data from an eDiscovery query and/or...

Great news today – the Sway team provided Office 365 integration starting in First Release tenants today.
What is Sway and how can I use this in Education?
Sway is an easy way to create and share a polished, interactive, web-based canvas...

I get asked this quite often from my customers and we have a plethora of Office 365 content but in some cases the content can get stale. I will break some new training areas into three categories IT Pro/Admin, end user and developer. Office 365...

Some great announcements from the Ignite conference last week coming to OneDrive for Business. The good news is the OneDrive for Business roadmap appears to cover quite a bit of areas around improving reliability, performance, configuration, better features...

I have had several customers wanting to send more than 25MB attachments in Exchange Online for some time. The good news is we just raised the send/receive limit to 150MB for Exchange Online.
You can bump the send/receive quotas in 3 ways:
...

This is was question I received from a CIO for a massive west coast school district.
I found some excellent videos/topics:
OneDrive for Business – student portfolios/digital lockers, faculty/staff home drive replacement
Here and here...

This is a great feature for using Office 365 ProPlus on multiuser/share machine scenarios such as school labs, classroom carts, VDI, RDS, Citrix, Remote App since you can run Office 365 ProPlus in a shared machine model. Prerequisites before using...

The OneNote team just added an awesome addition to the OneNote shared Notebook strategy called OneNote Staff Notebook which complements the OneNote Class Notebook. New OneNote Staff and Class Notebook infographic What is OneNote Class Notebook...

Some great new items launched today for Office 365 customers. Brand your Azure AD/Office 365 Login Page If you use the Azure AD identity for login (e.g. AAD Synced identity with password sync) you will be able to soon brand your login page...

This was a question from large customer in the southwest who has over 250,000 users to sync to Office 365. AAD Sync requires a Full SQL Server to handle anything over around 100,000 user objects.
Here are the steps to install AAD Sync with a Full...

Three big announcements today: Office for Android tablet This is a great addition to the Office 365 ProPlus suite where you can get Excel, Word, PowerPoint on your Android tablet now. Word for Android tablet Excel for Android tablet PowerPoint for Android...

I get asked quite a bit about our Moodle integration with Office 365. The good news is starting today there is now a fantastic Office 365 and Moodle integration story. Moodle for Office 365 integration Here are some talking points about the offering...

This is an awesome addition to Office 365 tenants and Office 365 Education customers and is in the process of rolling out to tenants very shortly It is the first of our NextGen portal offerings in SharePoint Online which are coming. What...

Great news effective now we announced that we have upped the attachment migration limit size to 150MB attachments. This migration attachment limit was previously 25MB which caused a lot of attachment mitigation prior to migration if your on prem quota...

This is a common ask in education:
When will OneDrive for Business folder sync client, Office 365 ProPlus/Outlook 2013 and Lync 2013 support SAML 2.0 and Shibboleth authentication with Office 365 Education?
The great news is support for this is...

Great news! We launched the new benefit for faculty, staff and teachers. If your education institution is eligible , you can now provide the Office 365 ProPlus offering to your faculty and staff. Here is a quick FAQ on the announcement: Where can...

Where do I grab the new Outlook for Mac? From your Mac, grab the new Outlook for Mac bits here . (note: PCs will show PC Office versions) What are some new features? Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model and database...

This is a popular topic I get with education customers. I put together a quick scenario guideline for you: What does Shared Computer Activation (SCA) provide me with Office 365 ProPlus benefit? SCA allows you to install the Office 365 ProPlus bits...

I get asked by a lot of customers around what I can do with changing the password in the cloud via Office 365. It is pretty confusing with all the different variables and it took me a bit to parse through the scenarios myself. I wrote a quick FAQ to help...

There is a name change currently being rolled out to all Academic tenants where we are changing the A2, A3, A4 SKU display name to E1, E3, E4 respectively. The good news is there is no impact to PowerShell scripts or anything functionality or capability...

More great news for students and faculty staff. Launching today we have the Office 365 ProPlus benefit available as a new student ‘sign up yourself’ option. In addition, today we are announcing that you can use the same qualifying benefit...

Good news is this long awaited tool has finally shipped and it looks like this is the one tool to leverage for synching local identities to the Azure AD for use with Office 365 Education, Azure services, etc.
I put together a quick FAQ about the...

Delve Delve just launched today and will be rolling out to all Office 365 Education tenants very soon. What is Delve? Delve is a new way of having information presented to you rather than you searching and finding information. It is the first in...